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Samuel Horsey, a London beggar for more than thirty one years

Samuel Horsey, a London beggar for more than thirty one years. Frequented the neighbourhood of Charing Cross and Contts's Bank. Illustration from Lives of Famous London Beggars by John Thomas Smith (Diprose and Bateman, c 1890).